Torture quotes
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"Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.'"
"If waterboarding does not constitute torture, then there is no such thing as torture."
"Rolling torture wagons for nature's most dignified creature."
"To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures."
"People love that monkey torture."
"When you become famous you get to torture a higher class of man than before."
"...personal torture instructor...I mean physical therapist."
"One can have great concern for the people of Ethiopia, but it's another thing to inflict daily torture on the people of England."
"Embracing the torture, as I'm assaulted by my own thoughts. Like a locust giving birth to earworms. Eeeeew!"
"The martyr endured tortures to affirm his belief in truth but he never asserted his disbelief in torture."
"I walked along Nevsky Avenue.Actually it was more torture, humiliation, and bilious irritation than a stroll."
"There are some feelings time cannot benumb, Nor torture shake."
